Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 33
Come, be a man," she added, placing her hand on his shoulder; "you are still a child, and you must be good and reasonable, as you were when we were both children, and played together under the willow-tree."
Who acts: you, stepmother, we, children · What happens: come, be, add, place, play · To what, where: man, hand, shoulder, child, children, willow tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stepmother, we, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 added | nsubj |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 placing | punct |
| 11 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 added | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placing | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placing | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 child | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 child | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 child | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 child | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 child | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 good | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 good | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 good | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 good | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 good | cop |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 reasonable | cc |
| 31 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 good | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 when | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 when | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 when | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 when | cop |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 37 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 children | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 children | cop |
| 39 | both | both | ADV | _ | 40 children | advmod |
| 40 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 when | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 played | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 played | cc |
| 43 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 children | acl:relcl |
| 44 | together | together | ADV | _ | 43 played | advmod |
| 45 | under | under | ADP | _ | 49 tree | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 tree | det |
| 47 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 tree | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 willow | punct |
| 49 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 played | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | a man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | stepmother | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | place in a quote | gerund | stepmother not said here | stepmother's hand | man's shoulder | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 5 | is a | present | you | a child | still | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | must | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | you | when property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | is a | past | we | children | both property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | play | past | children not said here | the willow tree | together property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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